Life and Scrapping

Playing with pictures...

Here at the VanderRee house hold it's back to the daily routine of work, school and every daily duties!

Stach is a 'group 5-er' now, can you believe it?  He told me yesterday that he has to write very small letters now, and that he's allowed to choose what ever he want's to write with on Fridays! I can still remember that from my own schooldays... (all the girls in my class used to write with those very sweet scented pens... mán, those were cool!) My little boy is not little anymore!

Anyway, i can still dream a bit about our vacation, because the desk in my studio is filled with vacation pictures...

and my scrapbook on the road is filing up very nicely...

In the end i decided to use sheet protectors (cut down to the right size) to cover my photo's... i had them developed on clossy paper and i didn't like all the finger marks etc. on them... it makes the album bigger than i anticipated, but taking bigger binding rings will solve that problem in no time! And my pictures stay in good shape!

I'm half way though my pictures now, so i'll expect the whole album will be huge :) Hopefully i'm done with it by this weekend, so i can get back to my WITL project!

What are you guys doing with your vacation pictures this year?

 

Summer vacation... making a scrapbook on the road!

  

Don't you love it to capture all the details of your summer vacation?

I do... taking loads of pictures, making notes, keeping brochures etc. Maybe it's because i'm not a very good traveller... i always need time to adjust to new environments and places, need time to feel at home somewhere else, and catching the things i love of that place -in pictures, words and keepsakes- helps me in this adapting process! Like my brain needs some encouragement to see -when browsing through the pictures and stuff of nice things collected that day-  that it is indeed a nice place where i am...

Anyway, one of the things that's always a big challenge for me when i come home is combining all those memories into scrapped pages or even an dedicated album...

So when i stumbled across Ali's Scrapbook on the road class i immediately got exited... although i already made a similar album a few years ago, i bought the class a week prior to our vacation, jumped into my stash for some matching paint, papers and embellishments, made the fabulous clear page with fabric pattern paper and even bought a matching stamp set (the one to the left was already in my stamp collection) in my LSS...

I cut a cute camera shape with my Silhouette and attached it to the front of my album before painting it yellow...

The printed clear sheet (shapes by Karla Dudley) was a little bit too small, so i'm changing that one, but it looked cute so far...

It was fun to bind all the collected items in it when we were on the road (we went to Paris, because Stach wanted to see the Eiffel tower, and the to the north of France the second week) and i got a good change to play with my instax camera...

Yesterday evening we went through all our vacation pictures taken with our regular camera's and uploaded a bunch of them to the developer... hope they'll turn out all right, and that i can finish my album next week!